Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media is a refereed,peer-reviewed, e-journal that explores the diverging and intersectingaspects of current and past entertainment media. The journal ispublished by the Cinema Studies Program, School of Culture andCommunication, University of Melbourne.

ISSUE THEME: Series TV: New fields of critical thought and radicalperspectives on series televisuality.

What is it to live with series television? Series television dramagenerates multidimensional and radical narrative adventures, as well asprescribing formulaic and oppressive aesthetic and ontological paradigms.While it intersects with other narrative modes, series televisualitycontinues to mutate and invent its own particular processes and raises itsown particular questions.

This forthcoming issue of Refractory seeks articles that address theparticularities of series televisuality, in its textual, theoretical, andparticipatory dimensions, and which launch its theorisation into a varietyof new terrains.

In particular, articles of a rigorous intellectual standard are sought thattraverse new and radical fields of critical thought in regards to seriestelevisuality, or which create new concepts for exploring the politics,aesthetics, and participatory processes of series televisuality.

Some suggestions include:+ The intersection of series televisuality and concepts from continentalphilosophy+ The micropolitics of televisual series participation+ Piracy and rearticulation+ New territories of series televisuality, such as online modes ofdelivery, divergent modes of production, and participatory assemblages+ Non-English speaking series; series focusing on ethnic minorities+ Ongoing narratives of terror and espionage+ Space colonialism; indigenous dramas+ Childrenâ€™s and young adults series+ Sexuality and gender issues in series television drama (such as queer orlesbian situations in HBO dramas, issues of sexuality and culture orethnicity in series dramas, queer issues in young adult dramas, or transissues in any contemporary series dramas)+ Class issues and series television drama+ Narrativised â€œrealityâ€ forms+ Series televisuality and the body in extremis+ Articles addressing shows that have not yet received significant criticalattention, such as Skins, Night and Day, Shameless, Rome, Kick, TheCircuit, Primeval, The Tribe, or Sugar Rush.